Monthly Archives: August 2008

Thu 7th August 2008
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OD.com Sells for $220,000 - Two character domain sells for six figures. The domain name OD.com has sold for $220,000 at Sedo, according to the “recent sales” section of the site: The whois record for the domain shows that it was previously financed by Domain Capital. The new owner in whois is Yusuf Okhai. Examples of other two character domains that have sold for over $200,000 include: On.com $635,000 LI.com $500,000 AZ.com $500,000 ME.com $460,000 UI.com $275,000 CD.com $275,000 AR.com ... read more ...
Wed 6th August 2008
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Free Domain Names - Australian website hosting company and domain provider Unlimited-Space.com is giving away 1000 domain names and one month of free hosting in a special promotion to be launched on August 28. Unlimited-Space already experiencing huge online interest on the website it has especially created for the campaign, http://www.1000freedomains.com.au/. Under the special offer, Unlimited-Space will be giving a free .com, .net or .org domain name registered for a year to the first 1000 individuals coming to the ... read more ...
 
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Notes From AdTech Chicago: How Ad Men See Online Advertising - According to reports, at the opening sessions of the AdTech show in Chicago on tuesday, all opening speakers agreed there is a dire need for more accurate, actionable metrics, as well as greater interactivity with consumers for online advertising budgets to grow. “It’s not enough to be marginally better than Google,” quipped keynote panelist William Leake, president and CEWO of Apogee Search. Local media (newspapers, radio and Yellow Pages) is the battleground. Consumer relevance and engagement ... read more ...
 
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RackSpace IPO Friday - Rackspace the huge hosting company goes to market on Friday with its IPO. The ten-year-old company logged net revenues of $362 million in 2007, and a profit of $17.8 million. It’s offering 15 million shares at between $12 and $16 per share in a Dutch auction format (what Google used for its IPO), and it’s backed by some great names in venture capital, including Sequoia and Norwest Venture Partners. “Rackspace is well-positioned as a provider of next-generation hosting services,” said Bill ... read more ...
 
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How To: Submit Domains to TrafficZ Auction - With the exception of some branding issues, submission process is easy. I just finished submitting a half dozen domains to TrafficZ’s first live auction to be held at the TRAFFIC conference next month in Brooklyn. The submission process is done completely via a web based system and is easy to follow. In fact, the only confusion you might encounter is branding. You’ll probably think of this auction as the TrafficZ auction. TrafficZ is part of Thought Convergence. ... read more ...
Tue 5th August 2008
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Live Adult Auction List Released - On Friday at 2pm EST,  Moniker.com will hold a live auction of adult domains from the Internext Show from the Diplomat in Hollywood Florida. Remote bidding will be avalaible through SnapNames.com Here is the complete list in order that the domain will be auctioned off. As always, Moniker.com has stated reserve ranges from each domain. Just as a warning some of the below terms are explicit: LIVE – 10            FreeDatingService.com       No Reserve LIVE – 20            ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Reports Earnings - Marchex reported its financial results for the quarter ending after closing of trading today: Revenue was $37.4 million for the second quarter of 2008, compared to $34.7 million for the same period of 2007 GAAP net income applicable to common stockholders was $509,000 for the second quarter of 2008 or $0.01 per diluted share. This compares to GAAP net income applicable to common stockholders of $354,000 or $0.01 per diluted share for the same period of 2007. Adjusted ... read more ...
 
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“7 Reasons to Buy a Domain we Want” - An Internet marketing pioneer reveals why you should invest in multiple domain names now. Anyone who questions that the internet is here to stay should think again and any business waiting on the sideline should get in the game now according to one Internet expert. Its been a wild ride on the Internet since the mid 90s says Scott Alliy a pioneer in the field of Internet marketing. Scott who is founder and President of such popular websites as FindaSeminar.com the worlds largest training search engine ... read more ...
 
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Education.com Gets $10M in Financing - Education.com has just secured $9.75 million in new funding to further develop its site, from Series B funding by: California Technology Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, TeleSoft Partners Education.com delivers content geared toward parents of school aged kids. Offerings range from getting children ready for kindergarten to dealing with bullies and finding the best school. The service, headquartered in California’s Redwood City, launched in 2006. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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.Me Updates of Closed Sales - Here is all of the .Me domains that have been auctioned off (closed auctions) for $100 or more. The 4th largest price name is Baidu.me, i certainly hope the chinese search engine bought that domain. Same for mitsubishi.me which sold for $6,550 Domain Name                     Closing Price    Bids lasvegas.me                       $15,105          87 chatwith.me                       $15,035          22 picture.me                       ... read more ...
 
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New Type of Lawsuit is Brewing Against Domainers and Advertisers - There’s a new type of lawsuit coming against PPC advertisers and domainers, about search marketing and the right to bid on trademarked or just competitive terms. In this particular case Nike sued a New Hampshire outdoor sporting goods retailer, Eastern Mountain Sports, which does not sell any Nike clothing, for bidding on the term “Dri-Fit” in Google’s advertising system. Dri-Fit is a trademark of Nike. So when a user clicks on an EMS ad after searching for Dri-Fit, she is driven back to ... read more ...
 
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Registries Must Lobby GoDaddy for Success - GoDaddy’s power in domain registration cannot be ignored. Here’s a tip to any registries for new domains coming online in the next couple years: before you create your marketing strategy and invest in infrastructure, go cozy up with your new pal Bob Parsons at GoDaddy. Registries make money when more domains are registered as they get a typically flat fee for each domain registered. For example, VeriSign gets $6.42 for each .com domain registered. With GoDaddy ... read more ...
 
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Domain Roundtable Goes to Washington - Hi Andrew, As always, I respect your opinion and I think your blog is at the top of the list in importance to any domain investor. Your news site is a MUST READ for all domainers, and I’ve been a reader and supporter of your blogsite since 2005. I feature your website in my blogroll at my blog, Successclick.com. (I noticed that you have yet to reciprocate *ahem*) However, your article has an unfair negative spin on it, and it needs to be addressed. Spending time on this commentary ... read more ...
 
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Live Current (Communicate.com) Starts Trading Under New Ticker - Domain name company name and stock symbol change go into effect. Domain name company Communicate.com has officially changed its name to Live Current Media (OTC BB: LIVC). It changed its stock symbol from cmnn.ob to livc.ob effective yesterday. The company’s stock has been on a wild ride this year, shooting up to over $3.00 per share after positive press in Kiplinger. The stock closed yesterday at $2.10 per share. Live Current Media owns a number of premium domain ... read more ...
Mon 4th August 2008
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Large Yahoo Shareholder Wants a Probe of Vote - One of Yahoo largest and most critical shareholders, Capital Research Global Investors, said on Monday it had asked for a probe of last week’s shareholder vote which showed strong support for Chief Executive Jerry Yang. Yang has been under pressure for months over failed negotiations to sell the company to Microsoft and questions about Yang’s leadership, but last Friday’s shareholder vote appeared to show strong support for him and his team. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the ... read more ...
 
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It’s Offical We’re Addicted to E-Mail - According to AOL Mail’s fourth annual Email Addiction Survey, 46% of email users said they’re hooked on email (up from just 15% last year) and 51% check their email four or more times a day. One in five said they check their email more than 10 times a day. Of those surveyed, 60% said they’ve never gone more than 5 days without checking email and 17% can’t go more than one day without email. 20% of users said they have over 300 emails in their inboxes 69% of email users said they have ... read more ...
 
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FirstStep.com: 7 Trademarks and At Auction: Is it a Good Buy - The domain firststep.com is currently at auction at NameJet.com. I have to admitt its a pretty cool name and myself along with 143 other people have a starting bid on it. The price is currently $2,800 with the auction ending tomorrow. Doing a quick check I found 7 live trademarks for the term, not counting 2 with a hyphen “first-step” and 2 with the word spelled numerically “1st step”. So the question is what does everyone think of the domain and does the precence of several trademarks make ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames.com Update - I Just received this notice from Snapnames.com, which we all know has been offline for quite a while. According to the notice they expect at least another 18 hours of downtime. Here is the full notice: Dear SnapNames Customers: As you may already be aware, the SnapNames service has been unavailable since Saturday evening, U.S. Pacific time.  Since then, our technical team has been working to restore service.  Our current estimate is for the service to be on line in the next 18 hours.  ... read more ...
 
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Dark Blue Sea Financials: A Reflection on a Domain Business: And the Not Good - Dark Blue Sea a public company, part of our Domain Stock Parking Index, released its financial performance for the quarter ending June 30, 2008 today. Dark Blue Sea owns Fabulous.com. Their reported financial  results I believe is a reflection of the current status of the domain industry and therefore is important to read and understand even if you have no stock in Dark Blue Sea. I think the most interesting stats contained in the financial report is the sustained decline in parking revenue derived ... read more ...
 
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DBS: Domain Parking Continues Downward Spiral - Dark Blue Sea reports another drop in domain parking revenue. Australian domain name company Dark Blue Sea, which runs Fabulous, reported another drop in domain parking revenue in its latest quarterly update. Just two months ago Domain Name Wire wrote about how the company’s parking revenue from its 600,000 domains was down 18% in just one quarter. The news isn’t getting better. In the quarter ending June 2008 the company earned $1,003,000 from its company owned ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames Outage Continues - Service has been down since Saturday evening. Regular users of the SnapNames expired domain marketplace are experiencing their third outage of the past several weeks. The company says it will not return online until tomorrow. The company cites a third part vendor for the outage: We recognize this is the third outage for our service within the last several weeks. The problem is related to one of our vendors’ systems, unfortunately, and our team has been working ... read more ...
 
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Two Reminders that .Com is Still King - What a baseball game and radio show remind us about domain names. Last night I watched the Cardinals play the Phillies on ESPN. Play-by-play announcer Jon Miller mentioned a .tv web site (I think it was MLB.tv) and sidekick Joe Morgan chimed in “dot tv? I didn’t know there was a .tv.” Then this morning I was listening to the radio and a guest was promoting a gala her nonprofit was holding this weekend. She told the audience of tens of thousands that they ... read more ...
Sun 3rd August 2008
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GoDaddy Helps a Animals - Go Daddy donated $50,000 to the Arizona Humane Society’s annual telethon on Saturday. Go Daddy also used its expertise to organize online donations, helped answer phones and kept the live event’s Web site running smoothly. According to reports Go Daddy donated the money with Bob Parson own dogs deliver the donation on live television. “Max and Chief are quite the dynamic duo,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons, referring to how his own dogs rode in a customized Go Daddy remote ... read more ...
 
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Reminder: ICANN Comment Period Closes Sunday - /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Wins - GoDaddy.com now has a NASCAR victory to go with its IndyCar victory already this season. Ron Fellows drove the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet to Victory Lane after winning today’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Canada. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...